Quite possibly, though wars can have a habit of taking on lives of their own. Once you have made the commitment to war, a whole infrastructure grows up around you, a chain of command. That tends to b… (View Post)

A majority of the US public disapprove though, and that tends to increase the more action goes on and the fallout from it (deaths of service personnel, economic indicators) start to filter through. I… (View Post)

Although it is hard to be optimistic at the moment, there is plausibly an end to this where Trump has degraded the US’s role in international affairs so badly, and his second term is considered so eg… (View Post)

The single biggest failures of Starmer/Reeves has been lack of vision and lack of comms. Literally anyone who is able to articulate what they actually want to achieve in politics and how to tackle so… (View Post)

Restore at 7%? It feels iffy to me. I’m not quite as down on FON as others but it’s true they do seem to register much larger shares for the insurgent/populist crowd. (View Post)